In the last few years, Alabama lawmakers have pushed hard to raise the state’s reading scores. The Legislature approved funding for reading coaches in schools. They established summer camps for ...

The Alabama Public Library Service will continue withholding state funding from the Fairhope Public Library amid an ongoing dispute over how the library handles challenges to some books. Members of ...

The state board governing Alabama libraries plans to amend its administrative code to add language effectively prohibiting positive descriptions of “transgender procedures” or “the concept of more ...

Fairhope Public Library has received $98,000 in community donations after losing $22,000 in state funding over disputed book placements in youth sections.

The Alabama Public Library Service Thursday voted to restrict books for minors that address “transgender procedures, gender ideology, or the concept of more than two biological genders.” The changes — ...

About 60 people spoke out Tuesday morning at the Alabama Public Library Service about a proposed rule to keep books about transgender ideology out of sections of libraries designated for people under ...

Two nonprofits have given Fairhope Public Library over $42,000 to offset state aid lost in a dispute between the library and the Alabama Public Library Service board over content in the teens' section ...

State library board members pushed the issue of a local library’s state funding down the road again, while finalizing a new policy change restricting children and teen books with transgender ...